It’s that time of year again…the papers and television shows chronicle the highlights and lowlights of the year fading out. We look back before looking forward.

How would you sum up 2009? What words or pictures would you use? What were the defining moments? Could you make sense of them at the time?

Mine is here. It’s a post I wrote on this blog back in April. It all seems so much clearer now as another year ends. The third interpretation in the blog post seems to ring true. As 2009 ebbs away I have laid down worship leading and small group leading. Family life will change in 2010 as we eagerly await a new arrival in May. Work brings new responsibilities and new contacts – even with surveyors who share my love of surfing!

The lure of the sea with all its symbolism pans large on my horizon and I’ve been spending much less time on my blog and much more getting this off the ground.

"The priest in the booth had a photographic memory for all he had heard.
He took all of my sins and he wrote a pocket novel called "The State That I'm In"".
From "The State I Am In" by Belle and Sebastian

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